Providing a comprehensive exploration of China–Angola relations from 2003 to 2025, this book unpacks historical Sino–Angolan relations and contemporary evolutions in their relationship.China has played a pivotal role in Angola's reconstruction since the Angolan Civil War. Using archival documents and interviews, the author explores China's contribution to Angola's development and its contradictions with particular interest in the p...

Inspired by local Scottish folklore, In Your Heart a Devil is a gothic tale of love and alienation, full of loneliness, yearning, and the unholiest of unions. For years bonfires have been lit by superstitious villagers in the town of S - , intended to ward off the spirit of the man who was once their Laird. His widow still watches from the window of the big empty house on the hill. Isabel has heard the rumours about her husband, but only she knows what went on behind closed doors. Because ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing education, yet many educators have been left with more questions than answers. They are encouraged to explore AI while being warned about its risks. They are told to prepare students for the future but are often left wondering how to integrate AI as an enhancement-not a replacement-for meaningful teaching and learning.Rather than focusing on trends, tools, or collections of prompts, Real Learning with Artificial Intelligence...

In this touching picture book about the importance of kindness and lending a hand, a young boy gathers his community to take care of a loved one, perfect for fans of The Last Stop on Market Street.Mamá Elena always knows just what to do when someone needs help. Whether it’s by cooking a delicious meal or simply by lending an ear, she keeps her community together. And because of her warmth, her home is young Manuel’s favorite.But when Mamá Elena suf...

Ana Silva left the film industry the way you leave a fire: fast, scorched, and swearing never to go back.Then Cooper shows up.He's a celebrated director now–the kind of man who fills a room without trying–and he needs her to produce Somewhere, Sometime, the passion project she convinced him to pursue a decade ago.But returning to Toronto means facing everything she left behind: the anxiety she's never outrun, the habit of shrinking herself into whatever sha...

“Marisa de los Santos’s Belong to Me is my favorite discovery of the past years: a terrific page-turner that’s also poignant, funny, surprising and deeply heartfelt.”—Harlan Coben“Complex, engaging, and surprisingly moving.”—Boston GlobeThe sensational New York Times bestseller from Marisa de los Santos, Belong to Me is a gift for readers, an enchanting, luminous novel about the accidents, both big and small, that affect our...

After taking on a spicy alter ego, Ava runs into her best friend’s little brother and realizes he’s all grown up and flying her plane. When did the boy next door become the hot pilot she was looking for?AvaDuring my annual New Year’s Day brunch with my hometown besties, I finally reveal that I’m broke and have been relying on my battery-operated boyfriend for far too long. Leaning into the spirit of the new year, we all agree to take on ste...

In 1755, the famous Portuguese tile maker Pêro Manuel Pires is empathetic to a fault. He is dedicated to freeing slaves with the proceeds of his art and hiring the freed to work in his tile factory, triggering rage and repercussions from a competitor.Pêro harbors a female artist whose risqué creations keep the shop’s works in demand by Lisbon’s elite. The success of her designs does not sit well with one of Pêro’s longtime workers, bringing him and his loved ones under the menacing...

Seeing my sexy firefighter neighbor watching me from his backyard was such a turn on I decided to give him a show. Will this voyeur romance turn into a visit?MarcoI moved to a small town to start over. I got too close to someone before, and it nearly ruined me when I couldn’t save them. After this hard last year, I knew I needed to run away from my mistakes, but I didn’t know that included running towards romance.Mia

This book titled "KUDETA: GUARDIANS, RAM, SFP, YOU and MAGDALO" presents the brave stories of 14-coup d'etats by rebel military factions in the Armed Forces of the Philippines from 1986-2007.This book also features the fascinating stories of EDSA 1 People Power Revolution in the Philippines in 1986 and the EDSA 2 People Power Revolution in the Philippines in 2001.This book presents the historical stories of all military coup d'etat during the period amid th...

The food business is a world of its own. Talent is abundant. Structure sustains when margins are tight, the dinner rush hits, and the next opportunity arrives faster than expected. As a business expands, so do its reach, influence, and responsibility. Lasting success comes through the strength, discipline, and resilience required to maintain what is created and to keep building with clarity.The Food Business Blueprint is a practical guide to starting, structuring, ...

This book discusses climate change and responses to its risks-mitigation, adaptation, and geoengineering–within an increasingly ideological and geopolitically charged climate debate. It provides a detailed analysis of the scientific basis, feasibility, governance, costs, uncertainties, and risks associated with different forms of geoengineering, particularly Solar Radiation Modification (SRM). Although climate change is very unlikely to cause “civilizational collapse” or “global collapse”,...